ROOM TO DREAM

Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2019
Softcover | 592 pages | 15.24 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0399589218
Condition: Brand New

Room to Dream is not merely a biography it’s a slow descent into the mind of David Lynch. Half memoir, half portrait seen through the eyes of those who’ve circled his world, this dual narrative fractures and reforms like one of Lynch’s own films: intimate, elusive, and brimming with unsettling beauty.

Weaving together Lynch’s own dreamlike reflections with biographical chapters written by Kristine McKenna constructed from over a hundred interviews with ex-wives, collaborators, actors, and family this book offers a rare mirror of the man behind Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and more. A shifting self-portrait built from memory, myth, and contradiction.

In its pages, readers drift through decades of sound and silence, of art studios and darkened edit rooms. They encounter the ghosts behind Eraserhead, the tenderness of The Straight Story, and the shadowy corridors of Lost Highway. It is a map that refuses to explain, but teaches you how to see.

A book as unorthodox and compelling as its subject a reverent dissection of the mystery that is David Lynch.